Today in history
Subtitle: March 9
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Subjects: Slave insurrections; Antislavery movements; Trials (Mutiny); Fugitive slaves; Legal status, laws; Amistad (Schooner)
Other titles: March 9
Description: Presents information on the Supreme Court ruling freeing the remaining thirty-five survivors of the Amistad mutiny. Joseph Cinqué led fifty-two fellow captive Africans in a revolt aboard the Amistad Ship in 1839.
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